**** Warning, a rant is about to take place **** Can I ask a stupid, rhetorical question? Why do we continue to put business logic inside of SQL Procs? Can anyone answer me this? About the only half way decent answer I have ever heard...

Like so many other people out there I will be packing up and making the trip out west to Seattle for both the Alt.Net conf (Saturday and Sunday only) and the MVP Summit. I am looking forward to this trip for many reasons: Never been to the Emerald City...

For the past few months a group of us at Codebetter.com , Devlicio.us , IdeaVine (with special thanks to JetBrains ) have been working to create a build system for the .Net open source community. I am happy to announce (here at devlicio.us at least...

For all of its power and glory NHibernate is no different than any other tool which requires you to configure it before you can use it. In the case of NHibernate you need to configure (map) each of the tables you want to access to the various entities...

Recently I was asked to join the crew (Richard and Carl) on DotNetRocks . We had a great conversation about my learning NHiberante and using FluentNhibernate. We chatted about how learning new tools can be painful, but the pain comes with...

As REST services are becoming more and more common the need is arising to be able to retrieve data to them via .Net. Now normally when you want to retrieve data from a web resource you commonly would do so using a web service. And when you...

As Rest services are becoming more and more common the need is arising to be able to post data to them via .net. Now normally when you want to post data to a web resource you normally would do so using a web service. And when you use a web...

One exception you may run across while using Fluent Nhibernate (or straight up NHibernate) is System.Data.SqlClient.SqlException: Invalid column name ‘……’. This is normally caused because you did not provide the correct column name when doing your...

In an attempt to provide full disclosure I am a complete NOOBIE when it comes to NHibernate. In fact I have only been using it for a few weeks or so. What this means is take everything I say in this post with a grain of salt cause there may be a...